"I can get you the current contact information if you want it."

"We can at least say we'll pay for resurrections once they're feasible."

"Yeah, that's reasonable."

"...can we reasonably offer this to Liz -"

"Liz... was capable of being convinced far enough to make Maira nervous but would require more stringent safety measures even without Maira breathing down her neck."

"Well. It'll probably eventually be an option."

"Yeah."

"I should have caught that."

"Caught - what, Maira being evil and seducing Liz?"

"Yeah."

"They were pretty discreet."

"Obviously. But still."

"We could both kick ourselves about lots of stuff."

"I want you to - forgive yourself everything, move on, be happy -"

"Same to you," murmurs Isabella.

"Oookay that's your recommended daily allowance and now we are going to go look at Silmarils or something," says Alex, and he grabs Isabella by the elbow and marches her out.

Thanks, she sends him later.

Y'welcome.

She will be okay, right -

Uh, if you legit wedge her into killing you it'll take freaking forever but you're an Elf so, sure, I'll be setting her up on blind dates and stuff lickety-split far as you're concerned.

I'm not going to make her do it.

Wasn't expecting you to hold a gun to her head.

No, I mean, if I think I've disentangled myself well enough I'll ask some other psion.

Better than having her do it.